[banzi]

I agree that some of it is variance, but the rest I'm not sure of.

The rake is tough at 2/4 but I'm not looking for riches - 1BB an hour is FINE with me but I can't even manage that. In fact, since I got here I've had a single winning session. One.

Maybe I'm not as good as I thought I was, but that's fixable with study and practice. However, I can't seem to figure out what to do with these loose passive games where no matter what you raise with in position, no one respects it. No one respects raises or bets post-flop and for many, this would be a gold mine, but I constantly see something like this (happened yesterday - my memory for past hands is hazy right now but it's the general gizst).

Hero: AKh in cutoff. I raise to 4. Five people call.
Flop AK7 rainbow. Checked to me, I bet. One caller.
Turn 2 unsuited. I check, he bets, I raise, he calls.
River 2. I check, he bets, I raise, he re-raises, I cap, he calls and shows me A2.

Would a check raise on the flop have gotten him out? No way. These people simply will not fold [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]